Sass and Compass for Designers

Sass and Compass for Designers is published by Packt Publishing in April 2013. This book has 274 pages in English, ISBN-13 978-1849694544.

If you know HTML and CSS, then you can have all the power of Sass and Compass at your disposal. This step-by-step guide will take you through the time-saving features that makes it so much easier to create cross-browser CSS.

Overview

Simple, clear, and thorough. This book ensures you don’t need to be a programming mastermind to wield the power of Sass and Compass!

Follow along with installing, setting up, and working through an entire project, implementing the Sass and Compass techniques and tools as we go.

In Detail

The CSS preprocessor, Sass, is becoming the de-facto standard for producing cross-browser CSS more maintainable and with more ease. It supercharges CSS with features that make previously difficult and time-consuming tasks trivial. This book concentrates on distilling the techniques in a straightforward manner making it accessible to all, even to those that only know HTML and CSS.

Written by the author of the bestselling “Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3”, Sass and Compass for Designers will explain everything you need to get Sass and Compass installed, mastered, and making your life easier. There will be no perplexing terminology or baffling syntax left unexplained. We’ll get you set up and then build a site together, step by step, using the incredible power of Sass and Compass.

We will start with a completely unstyled HTML document and build a responsive Sass and Compass powered website step by step.

Sass and Compass make CSS easy. You’ll learn how to manipulate color in the stylesheet with a single command, create responsive grids with ease, automatically create image sprites, and create CSS3 powered rules that work across all modern browsers.

“Sass and Compass for Designers” explains how to produce great CSS easier than ever before.

What you will learn from this book

Install Sass and Compass on your system and then set up and maintain Sass and Compass powered projects!